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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur J Kendall) wrote:
> We are currently looking at how quantitative risk assessment is used.
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> Doses can be in micrograms, morbidity can be in rates per hundred
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> exposed, mortality in 10 million exposed, and so forth. In this
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> we are looking for citations, suggestions, URL's, etc. that address
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> issue of presenting to a LAY audience how to grasp the meaning of
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> and small numbers, e.g., 3E9, 1.4E-9, billions, millions, billionths,
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> millionths. The numerate community can be asked to recall how to deal
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> with these numbers, but we will be addressing a lay audience and want
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Your library may have copies of John Alan Paulos's books. His
collections of short articles often deal with presenting common-sense
interpretations of mortality rates and large & small numbers. Try:
Innumeracy
Beyond numeracy
A Mathematician reads the newspaper
--
Eugene D. Gallagher
ECOS, UMASS/Boston
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